1. New legislation in Sacramento would ban the use of secret grand juries in cases in which a police officer kills someone in California, the LA Times$ reports. The bill, authored by Democratic state Senator Holly Mitchell, stems from the controversial — and secret — grand jury proceedings in Ferguson, Missouri and Staten Island, New York that resulted in no charges filed against the cops who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

2. Another train carrying fracked oil derailed and exploded in a massive fireball — this time in West Virginia, the AP reports. Several trains carrying highly explosive oil fracked from Bakken, North Dakota, have derailed and ignited in the past year.

4. The Kensington board of directors voted to oust embattled Police Chief Greg Harman for his failure to adequately investigate an incident in which one of his officers had his gun and badge stolen during an encounter with a prostitute in Reno, the Bay Area News Group$ reports.

5. The disgraced ABAG official accused of embezzling $1.4 million in park funds has been indicted on charges of wire fraud, the Chron reports. The attorney for Clarke Howatt said he will return the stolen money.

6. California inmates are killed at a rate that is double the national average, the AP reports. Child molesters in state lockup are disproportionately killed.